Badu and Def
Niggas in Poorest Official Video - Yassin Bey
Here is the video for Niggas in Poorest by Yassin Bey A.K.A Mos Def. The video was directed by Yasiin Bey & Set Free, edited by Andre Cole and “produced by Yasiin Bey, Set Free and Andre Cole for Fellowship Mission”.
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Mos Def gives us a little bit of a history lession on his song Hip-Hop from Black on Both Sides. Mos is ususally an easy calm flower but on this track he turns it up all the way:
“The more emotion I put into it the harder I rock”
Those lines are from Time’s Up by O.C which is one of a few samples used on the track but it definitely got the point across. I love the fact that Mos Def can get a message across without seeming too preachy as he does in this song.
check this track out because again my words do not do it justice. Also listen to the whole album. One of the best!
I find it’s distressin’, there’s never no in-between:
We either niggaz or kings,
We either bitches or queens.
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse,
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts.
We either niggaz or kings,
We either bitches or queens.
The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse,
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts.
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| — | Mos Def, “Thieves in the Night,” from Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star, 1998 (via rapquote) |
